Joomla

In this tutorial we will show you how to prepare your Joomla website for upgrading from 1.5 or 1.6 to 1.7, the latest version of Joomla. Once you have conducted your pre-checks we will then show you how to go about upgrading your Joomla install using a copy of your backup to test it for any complications before proceeding to going live with your upgraded site. Continue reading →

In this brief tutorial we will cover the basics of what Gravatars are and how they are used. As well as how to integrate them in a sire you are developing.

A Gravatar is an image that once loaded up to a central site will follow you from site to site and every time you post a comment on someone’s blog or other site this image will appear beside your name. The central site that holds all these images is usually gravatar.com. Continue reading →

In this tutorial we will show you how to take a HTML template you have created and convert it into a Joomla template. We will be using Dreamweaver CS5.5 for our conversion but any version of Dreamweaver will suffice or any text editor will do the job just as well. To do this tutorial you should have already created a HTML mock-up of your website in Dreamweaver and filled it with lorem ipsum etc to create the look and feel. We will be taking that test content out and replacing it the code needed to convert your HTML to a Joomla 1.6 template.